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Hidden behind locked doors in the CBS program department, so the Madison Avenue legend runs, there is a large bulletin board plastered with the names of next season's shows. Only the network brass-the high-priced officers known as "Dr. Stanton's Book of the Month Club"-are privy to the board's high secrets. Every night the names are scrambled and a canvas curtain is drawn to make doubly sure that spying charwomen will learn nothing they can leak to NBC. Still the dope gets around. Last fall, for instance, the grapevine had it that...
Meanwhile, CBS President Frank Stanton, the industry's leading anti-schlock-meister, was the subject of a new joke in the industry. According to Variety, a revised version of a popular song is being sung this way at CBS: "Stanton on the corner, watching all the plugs...
...told investigators in his hospital room that he left his $64,000 packaging firm seven weeks after the show went on the air, had no knowledge of rigging. Nevertheless, in an angry letter of resignation last week, Cowan accused his boss, CBS Inc.'s President Frank Stanton, of trying to force him out. Wrote Cowan: "You do not want a man who has had an association with quiz shows, even though his association was honest and honorable...
...Stanton shot back a reply: "It shocks me that you should attribute to me motives that have no basis." Reminding Cowan that he had agreed to quit anyway, Stanton said that in the "fast-moving situation" that now faces TV, strong leadership is needed, and "administration is not your forte." Pressed by reporters who asked if the quiz stigma was not the true reason for Cowan's departure, Stanton backed and filled, finally said: "No, sir. I'm not conducting a witch hunt...
Meanwhile, adding fresh green Ivy to the executive tradition, Stanton named a new president: 41-year-old James Aubrey Jr., a 1941 Princeton graduate (and football end) who worked on West Coast magazines (Street & Smith, Conde Nast) and a local CBS station before getting his first network job just three years...